Double Espresso

The market's first dual Intel® IXP2350 PCI Express card!

In addition to offering the most advanced NPU development environment – including the ability incorporate NPU-to-host packet transfer and interaction – the Double Espresso is also a fully-deployable subsystem, compatible with many existing rack-mount and desktop servers and allows for advanced integration with the server CPU via the PCI Express interface.

Double Espresso is powered by two Intel IXP2350 network processors, each with 640MB of DDR
DRAM and an additional 8MB of external QDRII SRAM. The network processors can uniquely be configured to operate as ingress/egress, pipelined, or independent NPU subsystems. Double Espresso’s I/O includes four 10/100/1000 Base-T data plane Ethernet connections along with two 10/100 Base-T management/console Ethernet connections. The standard form factor is compatible with x8 PCI Express expansion slots.

Double Espresso is fully supported by IP Fabrics’ innovative PPL for IXP23xx software. PPL (Packet
Processing Language) includes everything needed to create, test, and deploy network processor applications for the Intel IXP23XX network processor product line. The product can shorten software development time by up to 90% when used in “deep packet processing” applications such as intrusion detection, voiceover- Internet, anti-spam, anti-virus, web filtering, content switching, Internet traffic management, and application-level cryptography, compared to programming in assembly language or C.

IP Fabrics’ innovative PXD add-on to PPL provides very high-speed packet transfer and remote procedure call mechanisms between Intel IXP and host processors using PCI Express.

Double Espresso is also available as an integrated application reference platform. The application reference platform includes Double Espresso installed in an appliance-type server with preloaded Linux and IP Fabrics' PPL software.

For complete specifications, please refer to the Double Espresso Datasheet.